She was among four Maitland speakers and nearly 300 others who tried to persuade county commissioners Monday that they should deny a request by the Battaglia family to rezone 33 acres along Maitland Boulevard for offices.

The vote was a tie and the commission will vote again Monday, without a public hearing. Commissioner Bob Harrell, who was on vacation, will return to work today. Commissioners Lou Treadway and Hal Marston voted for the project; commissioners Vera Carter and Tom Dorman voted against it.

''For a commissioner to vote on something like that without hearing all the evidence is a denial of due process of law,'' said attorney Jack Nichols, who argued before the commission. ''There is no way that Bob Harrell could know what I had to say.''

Although the map conflicts with some policies of the growth management plan, the county says that the map is just a guide. ''It's not a parcel-by- parcel map,'' said senior planner Rich Walton. ''We can't have a map that's so specific with every parcel having a future land-use designation.''

He said areas are designated for certain uses but individual properties can be changed through zoning.

Changing the plan through spot zoning violates the purpose of the plan, said resident Leonard Schmidt.

The growth plan ''requires the commission to plan ahead,'' he told commissioners Monday. It was designed to prevent decisions based on ''fancy flip charts,'' he said, referring to slick presentations by developers.

Maitland was the first Florida city to adopt a land-use plan, Schmidt said. The tradition of growth management planning in Maitland clustered commerical development west of Interstate 4.

'Very clearly, there is a long tradition of planning,'' Schmidt said.

Nichols told the commissioners the plan had been adopted ''in the cool atmosphere'' without heated debate found in zoning hearings.

''Two times you came to that decision,'' he said, referring to the fact that the county had adopted the plan in 1980 and again in 1985.

The Battaglias did have support from a couple of residents, including former mayor Joe Jackson, who was instrumental in shepherding approval of Maitland Center. He called the mammoth commercial project ''one of the greatest things that ever happened to Maitland,'' because it increased the city's tax base.

Jackson said it took 11 years to get Maitland Boulevard approved because of the activisim of several homeowner groups.

''They've got the same attitude about development and progress,'' he said. ''I think they're wrong.''

Darmoc said the residents would continue to encourage Carter and Dorman to maintain their vote ''and convince Mr. Harrell that it's bad for the neighborhood.''

''They say the neighborhood has changed because of Maitland Boulevard, but it doesn't have to,'' she said.